Instead of writing up paragraphs telling you all what has been going on, I am just going to make a list. Hopefully, this will explain where I have been & where I will be at for the time being. It may be after April 15¹⁵ before I can get back into the full swing of the internet blogging. I will just have to wait & see what my body will allow me to do, ok?

• Desi fell off the school’s jungle gym & sprained her shoulder & wrist. She is doing better, but Jock needed to have help around the house with her so I had to stay with them for a couple of days.
• Ashling (one of Desi’s friends) parent’s are splitting due to spouse & child abuse & the mother & Ashling are sheltering at Desi’s Grandmother’s house.
• Dad’s office is getting a booming business so I have been down there almost everyday helping (not working) in any way that I can. Even if it is just reading off names to mother as she processes the tax returns.
• My body has decided that since I fell down that it hates me & just sends me into one pain filled day after another. So some days I haven’t been up to doing anything besides cross stitch of lay in bed all day. Plus though my ankle is doing better, it still hasn’t healed all the way so I have to hobble around.
• My seizures are acting up again. So I am also getting slammed with more of those every day. I know it is just the stress of Tax Season, but until after April 15 there is nothing that is going to ease it.
• Here is the big one: My parents can’t stop fighting. If they would would just stop the screaming & fighting I swear my stress levels may just settle down & I may be able to get a handle on things. Can I leave? No. Can I tone them out? No. They drag me into it. No matter how many times I tell them no.
• I am the research department (joking) for my father (that is how I earn my magazines & xstitch supplies). So if he wants something done online I usually do it for him. At the moment, I have about 75 things to look up. The problem is he doesn’t know where to even start to look for them. Every day I have to listen to him gripe me out cause I haven’t found them all for him. Not to mention the fact that I am also supposed to help mom with the household chores & help her with processing the tax returns, work on my cross stitch commissions, & last but not least fill my other responsibilities that are too numerous to count here.

Those above reasons are why I haven’t been online very much where you all can find me. I try to pop in to the BBS boards, but I am not there very often. Even now I am typing this on the fly. I have to get dressed & run out the door. I am so tired & I hurt so bad today I can’t even think straight. My mother doesn’t know what to do. She understands, but she doesn’t know how to help. The pain killers from the doc don’t work. Aw well, my life is pain & it has been that way since 1991. Anyhoo, If I have the time tonight when I get home, I have a surprise for you all. I have pictures for the BBS board, but Melissa has to see them first.

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